I’ve always thought a tax on taking a loan out using your stock as collateral is a good idea.
Borrow 1mil, tax it like half of capital gains. Repay the loan, get it back. Sell the assets to pay the loan off, pay the other half of the capital gains.
Or something like that.
Only do it for the wealthy on these bigger transactions. Maybe even starting at 10m, I dunno. They can afford the accountants to do it right at that point.
Edit: and only if the money is taken out of the investment account or used outside an investment account. So you can trade on margin, but not withdraw the loan to buy a house.
It’d probably has to be aggregate, so you don’t just do 10 $1 million loans as well. A million seemed too low as that’d hit a lot of people and small businesses. Somewhere between 1 and 10.
Keep in mind there is interest on these loans that has to be paid eventually, which probably involves taxes, unless they’re so wealthy they can just keep chaining it forever until they die which is what the billionaires do.
Edit: at least with something like this, we aren’t taxing unrealized gains without them trying to access the gains.
I’ve always thought a tax on taking a loan out using your stock as collateral is a good idea.
Borrow 1mil, tax it like half of capital gains. Repay the loan, get it back. Sell the assets to pay the loan off, pay the other half of the capital gains.
Or something like that.
Only do it for the wealthy on these bigger transactions. Maybe even starting at 10m, I dunno. They can afford the accountants to do it right at that point.
Edit: and only if the money is taken out of the investment account or used outside an investment account. So you can trade on margin, but not withdraw the loan to buy a house.
Start it at 10m? So if you only borrow 9m you pay no tax?
It’d probably has to be aggregate, so you don’t just do 10 $1 million loans as well. A million seemed too low as that’d hit a lot of people and small businesses. Somewhere between 1 and 10.
Keep in mind there is interest on these loans that has to be paid eventually, which probably involves taxes, unless they’re so wealthy they can just keep chaining it forever until they die which is what the billionaires do.
Edit: at least with something like this, we aren’t taxing unrealized gains without them trying to access the gains.